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I actually agree with everything that is suggested in this submission. I wonder what the best way would be to get it implemented is. Perhaps as a form of feature request poll, to see what the suppor for it is. Or perhaps a call for people that agree to "watch" it on github.

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It's being discussed here (along with some alternate syntax ideas):

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1889

I think this is a little closer:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1495

The above link is actually a discussion about Dart’s “Monocle Moustache,” so I console myself that when people say it’s ugly, they mean the moustache and not significant whitespace :-)

I'm the originator of that issue. There's been previous proposals, and subsequent ones). I originally proposed different syntaxes, but the current proposal was superior.

I've been amazed at how much interest there has been in this. Every time I think it's over, more people pile in. The only catch is: there are a couple of people who still need to be convinced, and they're actually the important ones. I'm pretty sure that a pull request for this would not be accepted.

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